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Post-Harvest Produce Preservation Using Deep Ultraviolet LED technology

Gaska M. Shur S. Rumyantsev I., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

With the ever-increasing human population within developing countries, limited availability and access to clean water, ever present climate change call for the coming of a second green revolution. An important component of this second green [...]

Cell-mediated, heat-based therapy for combating HIV infection

Denver H.T., de Noronha C.M., Borca-Tasciuc D-A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

There is an increased interest in developing alternative therapies to combat deadly infectious disease including HIV. This work investigates the fundamentals of a novel, nanoparticle-based potential treatment method employing macrophage cells. Macrophages are a very [...]

Local temperature measurement near remotely heated,ultra-small gold nanoparticles

Gupta A., Denver H., Borca-Tasciuc D-A., Joshi A., Kane R., Hella M., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

This work presents a novel technique to measure the temperature in the vicinity (~3.5 nm) of a remotely heated, ultra-small gold nanoparticle. The temperature measurement is carried out employing fluorescent thermometry and core/shell CdSe quantum [...]

Nanostructured Biomolecular Assemblies Based on DNA-Protein Interactions

Sroga G.E., Dordick J.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

Directed, biologically-driven self-assembly has the potential to yield hybrid multicomponent architectures with applications ranging from nanoelectronic devices to smart drug delivery systems and responsive materials. To enable these applications, it is critical to gain control [...]

Mechanical and magnetic properties comparison between elastomer composites based on nickel nanoparticles and nanowires as fillers

Denver H., Martin E., Gupta A., Heiman T., Gupta A., Borca-Tasciuc D-A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

Applications that utilize magnetic polymer nanocomposites are currently emerging at a high rate. Examples include magnetic actuation in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and medical devices, thermal actuation through electromagnetic power harvesting, and magnetically actuated morphing structures. [...]

Compact Iterative Field Effect Transistor Model

Shur M.S., Turin V., Veksler D., Ytterdal T., Iñiguez B., Jackson W., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

Compact models for field effect transistors should satisfy two conflicting requirements. On one hand, they should be simple enough and should contain a small number of physics-based parameters to be suitable for parameter extraction. On [...]

Transient Analysis of Cooling of Biological Tissues Using Semi-Infinite Approximation

Jain A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

In the present paper, we have presented an analytical approach for transient analysis of cooling of biological tissues due to blood flow. Semi-infinite approximation for tissues is used and continuum approach is used for modeling.

Dynamic Modeling and Input Shaping for MEMS

Popa D.O., Wen J.T., Stephanou H.E., Skidmore G., Ellis M., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

In this paper we show that the dynamic performance of MEMS devices can be significantly enhanced using reduced-order modeling techniques and open-loop control via input shaping. Specifically, we apply this methodology to a variety of [...]

Computationally Efficient Dynamic Modeling of MEMS

Popa D.O., Critchley J., Sadowski M., Anderson K.S., Skidmore G., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

Traditional modeling work in MEMS includes simplified PDE/ODE formulation, based on physical principles, and Finite Element Analysis. More recently, reduced order modeling techniques using Krylov subspace decomposition have been proposed in the context of nodal [...]

Wafer-Level High Density Multifunctional Integration (HDMI) for Low-Cost Micro/Nano/Electro-Opto/Bio Heterogeneous Systems

Gutmann R.J., Lu J-Q, McMahon J.J., Persans P.D., Cale T.S., Eisenbraun E.T., Castracane J., Kaloyeros A.E, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

A technology platform -wafer-scale high density multifunctional integration (HDMI) -is described which offers the potential for low-cost integration of information processing and sensor/actuator technologies for future microelectronic, nanoelectronic, mixed electro-optical and bio-molecular systems. The HDMI [...]